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September 1997

Just a few notes that may be of interest to researchers interested
in agent-based computational economics (ACE), roughly defined as the
computational study of economies modelled as evolving decentralized
systems of autonomous interacting agents.  Items of more permanent
interest (including links to surveys, an annotated syllabus, source
code, and pointers to related Web sites) can be found at the ACE Web
site at

    http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/ace.htm

ACE news notes are anticipated about once a month during the regular
academic year, September-May.  Please contact Leigh Tesfatsion
(tesfatsi@iastate.edu) if you wish to be added or removed from this news
list, or if you have items you wish to have included in the news notes.
Please do **not** use the list address.

Thank you.

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1. TRACK OF ACE WORKSHOPS AT NEXT COMPUTATIONAL ECONOMICS CONFERENCE

     A coordinated track of five ACE workshops proposed by Leigh
Tesfatsion and Blake LeBaron has been accepted for inclusion in next
year's conference on computational economics, to be held in
Cambridge, UK, June 29-July 1, 1998.  The official title of this
conference is the Symposium on Computation in Economics, Finance,
and Engineering: Economic Systems, or the CEFEES'98 Symposium for
short.  The workshop topics are as follows:

        (1) Building ACE Worlds
        (2) Agent Representation in ACE Models
        (3) ACE Experimental Design and Data Analysis
        (4) ACE Models in Education
        (5) Applications/Policy Uses of ACE Models

Each workshop is being co-organized by 2-3 people who expressed
interest in this project when first proposed last summer at the
special ACE meeting following the Stanford computational economics
conference.
     For more information about the CEFEES'98 Symposium, see the
conference Web site at

       http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/dae/cefes98/conf.htm


2. JOURNALS SPECIFICALLY INTERESTED IN ACE-RELATED RESEARCH

     The editors of the following three journals have informed me
that they are particularly interested in considering ACE-related
research for publication:

     (a) _Macroeconomic Dynamics_, a new journal from Cambridge U
         Press edited by William A. Barnett.  For more information,
         see the journal's home page at

            http://wueconwustl.edu/~barnett/MD.html

     (b) _Games and Economic Behavior_, an Academic Press journal
         edited by Larry Samuelson.

    CORRECTION: The current editor of _GEB_ is Ehud Kalai.  Larry
                Samuelson is on the editorial board.

     (c) _IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation_, edited
         by David Fogel.  For more information, see the link to
         this journal at the following IEEE Neural Net Council Web
         site:

            http://www.ieee.org/nnc/pubs/transactions.html

    CHANGE: This Web site address has been changed to

            http://www.ieee.org/society/nnc/pubs/transactions.html


3. NEW ACE-RELATED PUBLICATION

     The following book has just appeared:

        _The Economy as an Evolving Complex System II_, edited by
        W. Brian Arthur, Steven N. Durlauf, and David A. Lane,
        Proceesings Volume XXVII, Santa Fe Institute Studies in
        the Sciences of Complexity, Addison-Wesley, 1997,
        ISBN 0-201-32823-2 (paperback), 583 pages.

     From the cover blurb:  "This volume is a collection of articles
     that shape and define...a view of the economy as emerging from
     the interactions of indivudual agents whose behavior constantly
     evolves, whose strategies and actions are always adapting."


4.  NEW ON-LINE JOURNAL ON EVOLUTIONARY MODELS OF INFORMATION

     The _Journal of Memetics: Evolutionary Models of Information_,
is a new peer-reviewed journal that will be published exclusively on
the Web, at

      http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit

From the journal announcement:  "JOM-EMIT is the first peer-reviewed
journal devoted to the development of the memetic perspective.  This
perspective looks at culture, communication, and information
transmission as evolutionary phenomena, governed by the mechanisms
of variation, replication, and selection."
     The journal has no subscription fee.


5. ACE AND ACE-RELATED SOFTWARE

     Over the summer a number of additional links have been added to
the ACE software page linked to the ACE Web site, including some fun
interactive sites for artificial life.
     If you have ACE related software that is at least at the beta
testing level (i.e., no compilation or run-time errors and no known
implementation errors!) that you would like to include on this site,
please let me know.

   IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER:  Unless otherwise specified by the provider,
   all of this software is provided "as is" and without warranty of
   any kind.

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